Device to prevent sea-dumped garbage from being thrown onto the beach.



- No. 874,497. PATENTED DEC. 24, 1907.

s. B. GLADDING. I

DEVICE TO PREVENT SEA DUMPED GARBAGE FROM BEING THROWN ONTO THE BEACH.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25. 1907- r14: NORRIS PETERS 00., WASHINGTON, n, c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL ELLIS GLADDING, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

DEVICE TO PREVENT SEA-DUMPED GARBAGE FROM BEING THROWN ONTO THE BEACH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Dec. 24, 1907.

Application filed March 251 1907- Serial No. 364.295.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL ELLIs GLAD- DING, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices to Prevent Sea-Dumped Garbage from Being Thrown onto the Beach, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

It is customary in cities or towns lying on or adjacent to the sea or other large body of water to collect city garbage of various kinds or classes in scows which are taken out to sea and dumped, and in such cases the lighter and most of the vegetable material contained in said garbage rises to the surface and is thrown by the waves or tide onto the beach or shore where it is very objectionable and frequently dangerous to health; and the object of this invention is to provide a deviceby means of which the said lighter garba e or other material which will not permanent y sink, but which rises to the surface of the water may be collected at or near the point where it was dumped from the scow and be disposed of by burning or otherwise.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a device or apparatus involving my invention; and, Fig. 2 a transverse section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

In the practice of my invention, I provide a floatin frame a which is oblong in form and whidh may be of any desired dimensions, and said frame is preferably composed of sheet metal, the main parts of the sides or ends thereof'being preferably circular or oval in cross section and being also hollow.

, The main frame a, centrally of the ends I thereof, is divided and the separate parts separated to form gate-ways b, and the separate parts of the frame are connected at these points by depending yoke shaped frames 0 through which, in practice, an ordinary dumpin scow may pass, and the gateways I) are closed by floating gates (1 connected with the bottom of the yoke-shaped frames 0 by chains 6 over which the scow may also pass, and which will normally rise to the surface and close the gate-ways b.

The gates 11 will also be made of sheet metal, or of wood, or of any other suitable material, but my invention is not limited to sheet metal for forming the main frame a, and said main frame may be composed of any preferred material, the only object, in this connection, being to provide a' floating frame of the general form and construction herein described large enough to permit of the operation thereof as hereinafter set out.

In ordinary practice, the main frame a may be from two hundred to twohundred and fifty feet wide and from three hundred and fifty to five hundred feet long, and in practice a scow containing the city garbage and other material is floated into the frame through the gate-ways b, or one of them, and the contents thereof dumped in the usual manner.

The side portions of the main frame a are provided with longitudinally arranged and ownwardly inclined surface plates f which extend downwardly into the water, and the lighter material of the garbage when it rises to the surface, after being dumped will collect on the plates f in the same manner as such material usually collects on the beach, and may be removed from said plates and dis osed of by burning or in any other way.

11 the construction shown, the plates f are only applied to the sides of the main frame, but they maybe applied to the ends thereof also, if desired.

It will be understood that a scow or scows may be floated into and out of the frame a without turning, or said scow or scowsmay be turned in the frame and taken out of the same through the gate-way through which they were admitted.

The frame a may be composed of separate parts flexibly connected or said frame may be made in any preferred manner. It will also be understood that the frame a may be located at any desired point and may be anchored in position, if desired, and said frame may be moved from one point to another when desired or if necessary.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A .device of the class described, comprising a floating frameadapted to receive a dumping scow or scows, said floating frame being provided at its sides with downwardly inclined plates which extend into the water in which the frame floats.

2. A device of the class described, comprising a floating frame adapted to receive a dumping scow or scows, said floating frame being provided at its sides with downwardly inclined plates which extend into the water in which the frame floats and being also pro vided at the ends with gate-ways having floating gates.

3. In a device of the class described, comprising a floating frame adapted to receive a dumping scow or scows, said floating frame being provided at its opposite ends with gate-ways through which said scow or scows may pass and floating gates for closing the same, and said frame being also provided on 15 the inner sides of the parts thereof with downwardly inclined plates which extend into the water in which the frame floats.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in pres- 20 ence of the subscribing witnesses this 22nd day of March 1907.

SAMUEL ELLIS GLADDING.

WVitnesses HENRY D. KLOMBURG, GEORGE H. KLoMBpRe. 

